Comments on: Give your page wings: the WordPress Side Content Plugin

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:09:29 +0000

Ted, thanks for your comments. Glad you got the plugin working in the end. I don’t have much time to work on it right now, so it’s good to hear it’s still working with newer versions of WordPress.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:03:44 +0000

To solve the mystery of my two blogs…
I started the first blog and at that time I was not able to get the plugin to work. I stayed with it and began getting results. So it must have been user error. Now it appears that I am getting the results that I had hoped for!

Thanks,
Ted

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:59:20 +0000

Just wanted you to know that I am using WP 3.3 and have just downloaded your plugin and it is working beautifully!

I just started testing it but it is looking really good!

Thanks,
Ted

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:33:02 +0000

The potential of what I am reading about this plugin sounds great!

I cannot get it to work at al1!

I am using WP 3.3 and the DeepFocus Elegant Themes theme.

I have followed all directions to the letter. Does this plugin work with 3.3?
I am sorry if I am overlooking the obvious…is there additional training on-line concerning this plugin?

Thanks,
Ted

By: NacaYoda

NacaYoda — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:52:55 +0000

I think WP 3.0 breaks this pluggin. Unfortunately I upgraded my site

It doesn’t break completely… but “Updating” a WP page reverts the contents of the Custom Fields back to what they were vefore the WP 3.0 upgrade.

If the last thing I do is Update the Custom Field with the info I actually need in there, it saves okay. Kinda screwy. Don’t suppose a fix could be made?

Thanks for a great pluggin. Fool me for upgrading

By: swcomm

swcomm — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:03:34 +0000

This plugin is fantastic – the only thing that would make it even better is the ability to use TinyMCE or some kind of WYSIWYG editor in the widget editing panel so one didn’t have to write HTML code. Other than that, this is perfect – using it to display a custom photo, video and/or testimonial per page in my sidebars.

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:42:12 +0000

@N_S: the PHP error is caused by running under PHP4. Shortcodes won’t work automatically except for plugins using the new Shortcodes API. Otherwise some extra code is needed.

@TradiArt: I haven’t tried it with WP 3 yet, sorry.

By: TradiArt

TradiArt — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:33:07 +0000

Hello!

Thank you very much for this useful plug-in. Is it compatible with WP3?

Thank you!

By: N_S

N_S — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:01:15 +0000

I have to agree with one of the commments above. It works on some 2.9.2 websites but I’ve just installed my wordpress fresh now.

Upon activating the plugin this error message popped up;

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c06/h04/mnt/97648/domains/visitlocal.co.uk/html/wp-content/plugins/side-content/side-content.php on line 18

Another issue is shortcodes fail to display in the sidebar – especially if you use mappress plugin.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:57:02 +0000

does not work on WP 2.9.2